Urbanization through dispossession: survival and stratification in China’s new townships

Journal of Peasant Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 275-294

  Chuang, Julia ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

accumulation by dispossession; China; labor; land politics

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; LABOR MIGRATION; PROFITABILITY; RURAL LANDSCAPE; RURAL SOCIETY; URBANIZATION;

CHINA; SICHUAN;

EID: 84926246115     PISSN: 03066150     EISSN: 17439361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2014.990446     Document Type: Article

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